]]>http://blog.occupiedlondon.org/2014/12/11/athens-061214-strong-demo-for-alexis-nikos-heavy-clashes-exarcheia/feed/4A great victory for Nikos Romanos and the solidarity movement: Nikos ends his hunger strike on day 31, having won a great concession by the governmenthttp://blog.occupiedlondon.org/2014/12/10/a-great-victory-for-nikos-romanos-and-the-solidarity-movement-nikos-ends-his-hunger-strike-on-day-31-having-won-a-great-concession-by-the-government/
http://blog.occupiedlondon.org/2014/12/10/a-great-victory-for-nikos-romanos-and-the-solidarity-movement-nikos-ends-his-hunger-strike-on-day-31-having-won-a-great-concession-by-the-government/#commentsWed, 10 Dec 2014 19:37:16 +0000adminhttp://blog.occupiedlondon.org/?p=8995Today, December 10th, Nikos Romanos ended his hunger strike following the voting into parliament of a law that would allow him, and any other incarcerated student who completes six months of distant learning, to physically attend their higher education classes with an electronic tag – the first time such a system would be introduced in the country.

Nikos issued the following statement:

Following 31 days of a tough and tenacious struggle, I end my hunger strike, having scored an important victory. The amendment voted in Parliament with me its single recipient, had important differences to the initial proclamation of the Minister of Justice, eventually meeting my demands – even if this involves me “wearing an electronic tag”.

The only thing certain is that this victory was an outcome of the political pressure applied for it by the people in struggle and the Combatant Anarchy are indisputably the great moral, political and practical victors. The multiform revolutionary struggle and us, as political prisoners, resurface from this struggle stronger than before.

I raise my fist, sending the warmest regards and my unlimited love to all those comrades who stood by my side.

BY ALL MEANS!

SOLIDARITY TO POLITICAL PRISONERS

LONG LIVE ANARCHY

PS: A detailed text will follow in the days to come.

PS2: I would like to also thank the hospital doctors who refused to bow to the pressure by the attorney regarding my forced feeding, and who supported me to the possible extent.

]]>http://blog.occupiedlondon.org/2014/12/06/clashes-continue-in-exarcheia-through-the-night/feed/2Thousands marching in Athens in solidarity to Nicos Romanos and in memory of Alexis Grigoropouloshttp://blog.occupiedlondon.org/2014/12/06/thousands-marching-in-athens-in-solidarity-to-nicos-romanos-and-in-memory-of-alexis-grigoropoulos/
http://blog.occupiedlondon.org/2014/12/06/thousands-marching-in-athens-in-solidarity-to-nicos-romanos-and-in-memory-of-alexis-grigoropoulos/#commentsSat, 06 Dec 2014 17:23:29 +0000adminhttp://blog.occupiedlondon.org/?p=8987The matches all around Greece were attacked by the police, clashes are taking place all around Exarchia.

Athens demo had over 15,000

]]>http://blog.occupiedlondon.org/2014/12/06/thousands-marching-in-athens-in-solidarity-to-nicos-romanos-and-in-memory-of-alexis-grigoropoulos/feed/2Anarchist hunger striker Nicos Romanos enters 24th day of strike as solidarity actions take place all over the worldhttp://blog.occupiedlondon.org/2014/12/05/anarchist-hunger-striker-nicos-romanos-enters-24th-day-of-strike-as-solidarity-actions-takje-place-all-over-the-world/
http://blog.occupiedlondon.org/2014/12/05/anarchist-hunger-striker-nicos-romanos-enters-24th-day-of-strike-as-solidarity-actions-takje-place-all-over-the-world/#commentsFri, 05 Dec 2014 14:51:58 +0000adminhttp://blog.occupiedlondon.org/?p=8980Last night as the anarchist hunger striker Nicos Romanos started loosing his consciousness and as police implements a ban of protests in the city centre a dozen molotov attacks took place in the city, targets included Vyronas police station, Athens courthouse and bank branches. 6th of December signifies the 6th anniversary of the December revolt when the big annual march takes place.

There is a series of buildings occupied in solidarity to Nicos Romanos and the rest of the Anarchist hunger strikers, including Athens School of Economics, The Building of Workers Union Confederation, Athens Polytechnic, Komotini’s Town Hall.

Last Tuesday a 15,000 people demonstration insolidarity to Nicos Romanos took place in Athens.

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http://blog.occupiedlondon.org/2014/03/12/berkin-like-alexis/#commentsWed, 12 Mar 2014 02:51:29 +0000adminhttp://blog.occupiedlondon.org/?p=8970The 15 year old Berkin Elvan who was shot by the police in Gezi Park in the summer of 2013 died in Turkey. One more 15-year old killed by the police. In Greece, Turkey or Albania the enemies are on the banks and the ministries and their killers wear unifiorms. Clashes are taking place all night in Instabul and in Ankara.

]]>http://blog.occupiedlondon.org/2014/03/12/berkin-like-alexis/feed/0Occupied London #5 in Germanhttp://blog.occupiedlondon.org/2014/03/09/occupied-london-5-in-german/
http://blog.occupiedlondon.org/2014/03/09/occupied-london-5-in-german/#commentsSun, 09 Mar 2014 16:54:20 +0000adminhttp://blog.occupiedlondon.org/?p=8964Occupied London #5 was translated in German by our comnrades of bahoe books

There are times when the provocations of the free life we hunt for in this boxed world inevitably bring us before small or large dilemmas. If there is however some beauty in this world, it is definitely not in the streets where the hesitant crowd moves, but in the paths which unpredictably escape from our perceived field. The ambush and beating I got was an unexpected consequence of a decision I made and it was definitely an incident which hurt me. But words in here will not be consumed on this part, because maybe words are enough to describe such an incident, but are definitely not enough to answer it in any way. Remaining on the part of their text therefore, my desire was from the first moment to answer very simply and calmly to their claims in the sequence they were written in. I had begun immediately actually, a few days after the attack, and I had gone quite far. However, after reading their text again and again I simply couldn’t take it.
How do you answer such a delirium of lies without falling to their level?

How do you answer to fiction?

How do you answer to a text which ranges between paranoia, exaggeration and lying which even in the best case scenario that some of what they say is true, is probably about someone else they have in mind?

As I see their text again and again, I initially cannot believe how miserably they failed to understand some of the points in my text. The most noteworthy of all is that, without me stating it anywhere, they included, with certainty as well, themselves in the leaders of the prisoners which I mentioned and the most annoying by far is the matter of my position on disciplinary penalties which they translated as “thinking of personal benefit”, since everyone knows that the last thing I care about are disciplinary penalties and that what I wrote about the first 2 years of disciplinary penalties was basically that I sought it since it does not cost me anything at all (leave days and suspension of sentences is out if the question during the first 2 years at least). What is very clear in their writings is their desperate attempt to salvage what they can with the use of unimaginable and shocking propaganda. This outburst of hate with this prefabricated use of slogans for a person they know, reveals even to the most adamant, the levelling perception of these people towards any expression that puts them in the field of critique. Although they claim the opposite, the fact that they do not accept critique becomes obvious when, In their blatant tendency for exaggeration, they baptise my critique as slandering and insulting when the only thing that makes it differ from others is the deviation from the norms of the politically correct language, a language which theoretically they themselves are hostile to as well. A characteristic of their blurred answer, is that they get to the point of being bothered also by my anti-juridical statement, while it looks like they cannot believe that the informal (a-formalistic) organization is not some innovation which concerns only them and comrades abroad, but is an organizational model of attack through clusterings (not necessarily of FAI) which is being proposed for years now by many anarchists seeking, among other things, the deconstruction of pioneering logics of revolutionary organizations. For the “non-existent” they mentioned, comments are abound. As its known the CCF likes to “ignore” the existence of most anarchist prisoners in the greek territory for a while now. As well, the phrase “those who need to know, know what I mean” I mentioned about the known comments was obviously a figure of speech used for security reasons. The who are the editors behind those slandering comments is definitely something I can never prove in the juridical meaning. But there will always be more characteristics, besides a name, that can give away who is the commenter as in that case as well.

What they say and the makeshift scenarios they come up with are tragicomic. The historical document they drafted had it all. From conspiracy theories surrounding half of the things I wrote (the peak of which was definitely the theory that looks behind the purpose of the letter…. a trick so my trial goes well) up to the random mention of their history of struggle in prison. Here is, as they might have put It as well, the point where the limits of paranoia and existential insecurity blend. I do not think I have to say something more about them, besides they have already been badly exposed with their whole behaviour. I now believe there is absolutely no need to apologize for anything, because just as I never apologize to the enemy, thus I do not feel any need to apologize to a group of two-faced individuals with an anarchist history and the mentality of a herd. Fortunately the true comrades whose paths have crossed-linked with mine are not few (some of whom have crossed-linked with the CCF as well) and who can speak for me. Whoever has judgement can easily come to their own conclusions about the distorted reality they are trying to impose on others around their name and their selves. There is however in this personal anger also a deep-rooted satisfaction in the part of complete confirmation about their attitude and behaviour but also the emergence of the dirty condition prevailing around their revolutionary purity. It is definitely hard to make extensive analyses and find the deeper reasons of this story. Maybe the inclination to gather power was pre-existent among them and this was manifested as a repressed feeling after the deprivation of their freedom and imprisonment, as the only remaining way of life in a tough condition which demands if nothing else strength. This strength however can never be measured in comparable percentages of physical violence but to what level its combined with individual conscience and contributes to individual judgement.

To end, because the sick tactics of slandering from their side towards me continue in their attempt to convince other prisoners that I have called them snitches, it would be good for them to also tell the prisoners the opinion of the CCF concerning the population of the prison as they have expressed it in their texts. It is pleasant however to know that there many prisoners who do not swallow the propaganda of these individuals and have stood next to me positively. My choice therefore to write that letter if it could be considered a mistake for some reason, this is that I did not evaluate the consequences that could follow. For some reason I believed that even this group, who attacked me in the end, knew how to prioritize with elemental consciousness towards those across them and deal with them accordingly. However the consequences that erupt now I have to deal with. Right now, but also as long as I am in prison, I deal with dangers which fluctuate from a similar attack until my announced final “end” since this group is proving to be ruthless towards anyone who dares to directly dispute their serious image they artfully attempt to show to the outside world, but also ruthless in the methodology they use in order to exterminate me, attempting to turn others against me.

From now on for the CCF I will be “Naxakis the slanderer” since this is what some of them in there decided would be the best strategy which would quickly get them out of the field of dispute. A strategy which includes all the dirty tricks of this world, the same world with the same dirty tricks I hated and refused in order to become who I am.

Strength to those who think freely and dare dangerously.

Giannis Naxakis,

4th wing of Koridallos prisons,

5/2/14

]]>http://blog.occupiedlondon.org/2014/02/10/letter-by-anarchist-comrade-giannis-naxakis-from-koridallos-prisons-answer-to-the-c-c-f/feed/4Enraged locals set alight toll-booth after newest increase in road tollshttp://blog.occupiedlondon.org/2014/02/09/enraged-locals-set-alight-toll-booth-after-newest-increase-in-road-tolls/
http://blog.occupiedlondon.org/2014/02/09/enraged-locals-set-alight-toll-booth-after-newest-increase-in-road-tolls/#commentsSun, 09 Feb 2014 20:08:27 +0000adminhttp://blog.occupiedlondon.org/?p=8951On the evening of February 9th, hundreds of locals approached the toll booths of Malakasa, approximately 40 kms north of central Athens. They flipped the toll booths over and set them on fire, in response to the most recent wave of toll increases in the country; the tolls have continued to increase despite the fact that no road improvement works are effectively taking place.